2 Chronicles 33:14

After this, Manasseh built an outer wall to the city of David, on the west side of Gihon, in the valley, to the entrance at the Fish Gate. He surrounded the hill of Ophel with it and raised the wall up to a very great height. He put courageous commanders in all the fortified cities of Judah.

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In The King James Version

Now after this he built a wall without the city of David, on the west side of Gihon, in the valley, even to the entering in at the fish gate, and compassed about Ophel, and raised it up a very great height, and put captains of war in all the fenced cities of Judah.

In Context

13He prayed to him; and God was begged by him, and God heard his begging and brought him back to Jerusalem, into his kingship. Then Manasseh knew that Yahweh was God.

15He took away the foreign gods, the idol out of the house of Yahweh, and all the altars that he had built on the mount of the house of Yahweh and in Jerusalem, and threw them out of the city.

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Cross References

1 Kings 1:33The king said to them, “Take with you the servants of your master, and have Solomon my son ride on my own mule and take him down to Gihon.

2 Chronicles 11:11He fortified the fortresses and put commanders in them, with stores of food, oil, and wine.

2 Chronicles 27:3He built the upper gate of the house of Yahweh, and on the hill of Ophel he built much.

2 Chronicles 32:30It was this same Hezekiah who also stopped up the upper spring of the waters of Gihon, and who brought them straight down on the west side of the city of David. Hezekiah succeeded in all his projects.

Nehemiah 3:26Now the temple servants living in Ophel repaired to the point opposite the Water Gate on the east and the projecting tower.

Isaiah 32:14For the palace will be forsaken, the crowded city will be deserted; 1 the hill and the watchtower will become caves forever, 1 a joy of wild donkeys, a pasture of flocks; 1

Matthew Henry on 2 Chronicles 33:12-21

11 Wherefore the Lord brought upon them the captains of the host of the king of Assyria, which took Manasseh among the thorns, and bound him with fetters, and carried him to Babylon. 12 And when he was in affliction, he besought the Lord his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers, 13 And prayed unto him: and he was intreated of him, and heard his supplication, and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that the Lord he was God. 14 Now after this he built a wall… Read the whole commentary →

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